Surfside Beach SC is a lovely community and beach town located
south of Myrtle Beach and north of Charleston.
It has a lovely beach that is narrow at high tide and spacious at low
tide, and a nice pier. There was a full
moon while we were there, and so we saw very high King Tides on several
nights.
The houses along the beach vary from older one story beach houses
to cracker box identical newly built beach homes. However, we did not see anything like the
enormous beach villas that you can find at OBX.
Away from the shoreline, the homes look more like houses you would find
in any neighborhood in any town. The
town has several small lakes that collect rain water and drain by way of
canals to the ocean. You use bridges to cross
the canals as you walk along the beach.
We found Surfside when we were looking for a more southern
beach location for our annual Thanksgiving beach house vacation. Coincidentally, our neighbors own a home there
as well and were able to direct us to the grocery store and seafood market –
Fishmongers. The house we rented was 2
blocks from the pier. It was different for us to
be staying “downtown” with a handful of shops, restaurants and bars within
walking distance. We had a good lunch at
Bubba’s Fish Shack – Russ had an oyster po-boy, Dana had Carolina BBQ.
Our house was an older beach house with a huge central room,
and spacious bedrooms crammed full of multiple beds. It has a porch overlooking the beach with
comfy rockers for sitting and enjoying the parade of beach walkers. Our view included daily gorgeous sunrises.
The weather was glorious with temperatures each day reaching
the mid-70’s. We were joined by Leslie,
Natalie and Daisy (their dog) for the long holiday weekend. Together, we spent many sun-drenched hours
walking on the beach, playing with the dogs, or just reading a good book on the
beach. We also cooked and ate a
delicious Thanksgiving dinner, fished, swam, played cards and completed a jig saw
puzzle. A wonderful beach Thanksgiving
vacation.
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